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‘Blitz’ Review: Love in the Ruins

Alissa Wilkinson The New York Times
McQueen makes a point of integrating into the film what is rarely seen in movies of this sort: a sharp depiction of racism among Londoners, the enraging sort that has so calcified it still surfaces when people are just trying to survive.

The Surprising Story of How Peaches Became an Icon of the U.S. Southeast

Meghan Bartels Scientific American
New research argues that after peaches were introduced by Europeans, they spread across the eastern U.S. with the help of Indigenous peoples who structured the ecology and the land to be appropriate for peaches to grow and they tended the plants.

Can Call Center Workers of the World Unite?

Steve Early Labor Notes
Steve Early reviews Debbie Goldman’s Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age (University of Illinois Press, 2024, 246 pages).

A Moment in Gaza

Lola Haskins Porter Gulch Review
Precise as a haiku, with the force of a hand grenade, poet Lola Haskins offers a terrifying glimpse of the war in Gaza.

WSLC: ‘Hope Is a Radical Act of Resistance’

President April Sims and Secretary Treasurer Cherika Carter, Washington State Labor Council The Stand
We cannot deny that fascism, fueled by racism and misogyny, has been leveraged to divide and weaken working people. But our movement was built to fight the forces that seek to undermine democracy and enslave the human soul.

The Original Axis of Evil

Samantha Power The New York Times
This review is 20 years old, but it is nevertheless especially relevant to the United States at this political moment.